Then in the market place of the town, in the presence of each other, the father and son are beheaded--a thing, as Cicero says, very sad for all Asia to behold.

All this had been done some years ago; and, nevertheless, Verres had been chosen Praetor, and sent to Sicily to govern the Sicilians.
When Verres was Praetor at Rome--the year before he was sent to Sicily--it became his duty, or rather privilege, as he found it, to see that a certain temple of Castor in the city was given up in proper condition by the executors of a defunct citizen who had taken a contract for keeping it in repair.

This man, whose name had been Junius, left a son, who was a Junius also under age, with a large fortune in charge of various trustees, tutors, as they were called, whose duty it was to protect the heir's interests.

Verres, knowing of old that no property was so easily preyed on as that of a minor, sees at once that something may be done with the temple of Castor.

The heir took oath, and to the extent of his property he was bound to keep the edifice in good repair.
But Verres, when he made an inspection, finds everything to be in more than usually good order.